OCALA, Fla. --- The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, based at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing (Ocala,
Florida) has announced the inductees for the 23rd class to the Hall of Fame for the year 2013.

The prestigious induction ceremony will take place in Gainesville, Florida, at the Paramount Plaza
Hotel & Suites on Thursday, March 14, 2013, preceding the NHRA Gatornationals. A cocktail reception
starts at 6 p.m., with dinner served at 7 p.m. (Eastern). NHRA Announcer Bob Frey will again serve
as the evening's Master of Ceremonies.

The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame - Class of 2013:

Bernie Fedderly (Brownsburg, Indiana) - As a young man growing up in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada, Bernie Fedderly always wanted to make cars go fast. Fedderly's mechanical talents led him
to become the crew chief for fellow Canadian Terry Capp's Top Fueler, then tuning Canadian Gary
Beck's Top Fuel car, and then Ed "Ace" McCullouch's Funny Car to NHRA World Championships at Larry
Minor Racing. John Force hired Fedderly in 1992 to be a co-crew chief with Austin Coil, where he
has had a major role in helping Force accumulate his impressive resume of 15 World Championships,
plus three more for other Team Force drivers.

Dave Boertman (Norton Shores, Michigan) - The Stock/Super Stock racer was one of the most
prolific racers during his NHRA and IHRA career. Boertman's engine building and driving skills
propelled him to five NHRA World Championships in Stock or Super Stock, five NHRA Division 3
titles, and 15 IHRA Stock or Super Stock World Championships; capturing 17 NHRA National Event
Wallys, and holding over 30 class records. He has a unique place in drag racing history, competing
in the first Husband-Wife final in Super Stock at the 1971 NHRA Summernationals-losing to Judi with
a red-light.

Wally Booth (Beverly Hills, Michigan) - The quiet-spoken Booth, with partner Dick Arons, set
the Pro Stock world on its ear in the early 1970s driving the seemingly overmatched red-white-blue
AMC Gremlins and later Hornets in a class dominated by GM, Ford and Chrysler products. Booth
delivered five National wins for himself and Booth-Arons engines powered four more in the Maskin &
Kanners sister Hornet. Booth had earlier success with "Rat Pack 1" Chevy Camaro in Pro Stock, and
earlier in his career in Stock and Super Stock.

Harry Hibler (Shadow Hills, California) - Hibler can be classified as a "man for many
seasons." He began his career as a Tech Inspector at the San Fernando drag strip in the early
Fifties, and became the track manager. But Hibler also wanted to test his racing abilities-often
resulting in some major engine explosions-earning him the nickname "Hand Grenade Harry." When San
Fernando closed, he went to work for Bob Petersen at Petersen Publishing as the Publisher of HOT
ROD, then CAR CRAFT and CIRCLE TRACK. He also served the performance automotive aftermarket as a
member of the Board of Directors of SEMA, and was named to the SEMA Hall of Fame in 2002.

Hirata, Hobbs & Vodnik - This group of two veteran tuners (Kenny Hirata - Lowell, Indiana
and Phil Hobbs - Greenwood, Indiana) from Indiana and a teenaged driver from Ohio (Bobby Vodink -
then 19 years old (now of Oak Forest, Illinois)) scored one of the biggest upsets in the early
history of drag racing, when they won the US Nationals "Top Eliminator" race in 1963. Tension was
high as Garlits was having vibration problems and Hirata and Hobbs were sweating a damaged piston.
However, Vodink's earlier runs had been an average of a tenth quicker, and Garlits gambled. The
veteran Garlits left early in "Swamp Rat V," handing the win to young Vodnik, who saw the wounded
piston hold together for a stellar 8.62 second pass (which would have covered Garlits' 8.65).

K.S. Pittman (Springfield, Missouri) - The late K.S. ("Tiger") Pittman was noted for his
"take no prisoners" approach to the sport as he competed across the country with the S&S Team,
competing at AHRA, IHRA, NASCAR and NHRA sanctioned drag races. His early career saw him join with
Fred Stone and Tim Woods on their first gasser, joined later by Doug Cook. Pittman then joined
forces with Chuck Stolze to help form the legendary S&S Racing Team and became one of the most
feared names in the "Gasser Wars" of the 1960s, driving A/GS '33 Willys, a '41 Willys, and later an
Austin and an Opel GT. He was a member of the 1964 US Drag Racing Team which went to Great Britain
and helped transplant the sport to Europe.
Dick Rosberg (Rockingham, North Carolina) - The late Dick Rosberg, a veteran Southern
California Funny Car pilot, began campaigning Top Gassers at Lions Drag Strip before being tabbed
by the legendary Tim Beebe to wheel his new flopper at the end of the 1960s. After a stint behind
wheel of Tim Arnold's "Hallucination" he partnered with Bob Novak and Tim McDaniel on the
"Northwind" fueler, and later the well-known "Fighting Irish" Funny Cars. Jet cars then captured
Rosberg's attention, and the trio campaigned a sleek TransAm bodied jet car with Stroh's brewery
backing. He actively sought to improve the safety of jet cars, and served as a jet car inspector
for a number of years.

Louis Senter (Encino, California) - Senter is one of the original pioneers of the
performance automotive aftermarket, and a passionate racer of the late 1940s through the 1960s. He
co-founded Ansen Automotive and built a huge following among Ford V8-60 flat-head racers on the dry
lakes, sprint cars and drag racing circuits. Senter helped develop drag racing in the Los Angeles
basin, first holding races at the Santa Ana blimp base, and then building and running the famed
Saugus drag strip at an abandoned naval air station. He was one of the founders of the Speed
Equipment Manufacturers Association (now Specialty Equipment Market Association)-SEMA-and became
one of the early inductees to the SEMA Hall of Fame. Senter was also passionate about racer safety,
developing one of the earliest fire suit and the safety bellhousing, among other products.

The Founders Award - Dr. Robert C. Post, PhD (Easton, Maryland) Bob Post grew up in
Pasadena, California, with a lot of great drag racers. His own time as a racer lasted only a few
years, but he never lost his love for the sport throughout a long career as a writer, editor,
teacher, and museum curator. In 1973 he went to work for the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1986
he began planning an exhibition sponsored by DuPont called A Material World. Here was his chance to
fulfill a lifetime ambition, to spotlight a top-fueler at the National Museum of American History,
and Don Garlits agreed to donate his World Champion Swamp Rat XXX. When Don lit SR one last time on
the steps of the museum, it got Bob thinking. He had followed drag racing from the start, and he
was a professional historian with a doctoral degree. He had also written a dozen books. Time for a
history of drag racing. Thus followed High Performance - The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing,
1950-2000, the book Garlits calls "the Bible," which was published in 1993, and has gone through
many reprintings and a new edition in 2001. While the book has sold well, its numbers pale in
comparison to the number of people who first got close to a top-fueler at the Smithsonian.

Corporate table sponsorship programs are available. A table sponsorship costs $1000, which includes
seating for ten with logo on the table, a banquet program listing, and inclusion in 2014
promotional brochures, a pair of free passes to the Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum plus logo
placement on the banquet DVD credits. Table sponsors will receive a DVD of the evening's event, and
additionally, each sponsor will be recognized from the stage during the televised portion of the
event. Individual seating tickets will be available at $100 each.
Presenters will be named in the future.